Overview
This comprehensive guide is a unique tool for improving writing skills, and presents imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. Text Types: a Writing Guide for Students 3rd Edition provides examples of each text and clear directions about how to write each one. The scaffolding and modelling necessary for the development of writing skills is presented to students, by reviewing over 30 different types of written texts, including electronic texts.
1 Advertisement
2 Biography (historical recount)
3 Blog
4 Brochure/flyer
5 Debate
6 Description: factual/imaginative
7 Email
8 Essay: persuasive
9 Editorial
10 Explanation
11 Information report
12 Infographic
13 Interview
14 Letter to the editor (formal letter)
15 Narrative
16 News article
17 Novel: aspects and analysis
18 Novel: essay
19 Podcast
20 Poetry: cinquain, haiku and limerick
21 Poetry: free verse
22 Poetry: analysis
23 Poster
24 PowerPoint presentation
25 Procedure
26 Recount
27 Review: book
28 Review: play
29 Script: film
30 Script: play
31 Survey
32 Twitter
33 Wiki
Texts take a variety of formats including:
An everyday explanatory text
A media report
A literary text
A point of view or argument expressed in a letter or a debate